“I’m a Republican and a conservative Republican,” Shaw said. “But when I ran, I ran saying I would do what I could to get jobs in Guilford County.”

She called the incentives a good investment in job creation.

Her fellow Republicans disagreed, arguing that the board should reduce the overall county tax rate to attract business rather than offer incentives.

Phillips argued that lower taxes would help Procter & Gamble more than the proposed incentives.

“If we can get to a place where we can reduce our tax rate by 7 or 8 cents we can help them save over $1 million in six years,” Phillips said. “By eight years, it would be $1.5 million. Procter & Gamble wins in that scenario. By doing some version of what we’ve just described, every residential and property owner wins.”

Bencini sometimes votes for incentives, but he said he didn’t believe this one would make a difference in Procter & Gamble’s decision.

“A company with that sort of commitment in Greensboro already isn’t going to take that commitment somewhere else over $975,000,” he said. “But $975,000 is a great deal to this county.”

If it expands, the company will hire 200 people over three years. The jobs will have an average salary of $52,249 a year, according to the company. An estimated $30 million would be spent on property improvements and $70 million in new machinery and equipment.

A representative from Procter & Gamble told the commissioners Thursday that the company will make its decision in a matter of weeks.